Attempting to form the BIGGEST EMPIRE - CK3 Empire of Slavia 

I mentioned this in the community tab, but the first time I played CKIII I played as Poland. My friend is Slovakian and I’m Czech and I was telling her how I was having a hard time uniting the Slavs. Her response is that we’re too stubborn to unite. 😂

Convert to kysjani as it is a type of Christianity native to Bosnia

The feud was fun to watch, I also take it to heart every time and the sheer sadism that follows is unspeakable lmao

I have never seen that House Feud mechanic before, seems neat they should do more with that. There should be a House Feud Causus Belli.

either kysjani or slovianskan would be cool. maybe you should merge all of the slavic cultures so that the culture of all the people in slavia is just slavic

I really like you being allied with Moderna. Those peasant kingdoms are always fun, but they only last a little while a lot of the time, and I really like that you are trying to keep them alive.

Try convert to Krstjani Faith. Historically the Bosnians are Krstjani and can add an extra challenge to de playtrough because both the Pope and the Ecumenical Patriarch can declare you heretic at any point, leaving you without the Ecumenism special Tenet, i did it once and was hella fun, from time to time you will get an event where the Pope or the Ecumenical Patriarch are accusing you of heresy, you can have a debate with them and if you win they can't declare you heretic again for X amount of years, once you lose the Ecumenism trait all the playtrough changes, pretty interesting

The worst the learning your realm priest has, the more expensive the claim you get is. That's why the single county claim was over 100 gold - his learning was 3

I'm currently in this run. I started as the jarl of the island of Visby just south of Uppland. I started a Varengian Adventure against Greater Poland and then formed a new culture with Konni, and the Norse special units also. I also put the tradition For the Sword which allows me to do multiple great holy wars for kingdoms. But then most of the Pagan kingdoms became Orthodox. And so now I can actually conquer the Byzantine Empire cause I had my heir (whom I am now playing as) marry the daughter of the Emperor. I now have West Slavia, the Baltic empire (which does not count as a De Jure Slavic empire territory, but they where pretty weak and so I conquered them. The most difficult thing will be obtaining the rights for the zone of the Russian Empire. But it's 1075 and so I hope I have time for all of that land.

Omfg dangggg I never knew how cool those house feuds are... they can get WILD

I finished my Slavia run yesterday. It was a pain to go (one particular Duchy war took 19 years). Started as Rurik to get Land of Rus achievement. Did a few tricks to free land - for example swore fealty to Khazaria to destroy in from the inside, then had to destroy Byzantines, to get my hands on parts of the state inside Byzantines. Converted to catholicism for better culture progress and made norse/russian hybrid culture to boost switching to feodalism. At 5th of June 1252 I finally finished conquering the lands.

I would love to see you attempt to restore the Roman Empire similar to what Surreal Beliefs did starting from a count all the way to emperor

You have a special christian religion in the game called krstjani, it was the Bosnian version of catholicism

Great video. I did this run once and became aware of just how much land you have to take and maintain. One of the only goals that stress the vassal limit.

I did this same start a few months back, but converted to Krisjani or however it is spelled, and after making greater Bosnia I took over Byzantium.

Nice! This is my current save, but started as King of Bulgaria- lost nearly everything year 1. United the south slavs, fought off some mongols as I finished all the slavs then went onto form HRE.

Awesome channel, I’d like you to play a dynasty obsessed with horses and create the greatest light and heavy cavelry possible

Nice video. I think you should form a hybrid culture with Greek because you might be able to unlock few innovations.

The Rat thing was in Game of Thrones, also.

You should go with Krstjani faith as it suits your starting point

hey a recomendation for your future faith that you're building, try and get "hte pentarchy" or "pastoral isolation" since you're gonna be sandwiched between both the catholics and the orthodox they sound fitting

In the are there is a bosnian faith called kristjanji or something like that, you could adopt it (it would also let you build cathedrals in your land)

Also a fun tip I like to try for when I have too many sons - when they come of age force them as to work your knights (without giving them land) and let them die in battle (possibly by also having no court physician). Can be risky and they might not die but you definitely can take one or two out that way without scheming to murder them 😅

I enjoy the idea of a multi video series. Looking forward to the next episode. Subscribed :)

Hey a quick tip/hack i found out recently. When you create a new faith your new holy sites are the same as in the old faith from which you created, which can be exploited. Example: i played as a Catholic character and became the king of Jeruzalém, later i converted to apostolic and immediately created a new faith which a called new catholicism. Apostolic has holy sites close to Jeruzalém and so my new catholicism had the holy sites close too. I your case i would recoment converting to krstjni as the holy sites are in the region and one is in your capital, build a temple threre and then creating your own christian religion. It doesnt matter if you would like to recreate helenism or slovanska pravda just change the name, color and icon and nobody will ever know that you are a christian. You can keep the holy sites close by and build up the counties there.

Love this. Such a fun playthrough. Can I make 1 suggestion though.... Can you just slow things down a little. I get that you want to cover a lot and you're very familiar with the game, but personally I'd happily watch slightly longer videos where I get to see a little bit more of what is going on as it happens. I'm getting on to 50 and maybe that's why I'm occasionally having to rewind bits to figure out what actually happened because it went so fast. I even tried lowering the speed to .75 but boy you sounded weird

It needs more legacy to disinherit your primary heir,150,but it needs only 75 for simple an heir to secondary titles,so if you want to disinherit 2 sons cause you want the 3rd,first disinheir the second son and then the first for obvious reasons.

The special building slot in Rama is for the holy site for Krstjani. If you make your own faith, convert to Krstjani first so you get the holy sites.

De Jure wars for the counties of a Duchy are a cultural innovation on the tribal level. Just another challenge when you start playing in 867!

I still cant get over His way of saying Byzantine Empire 😂 I also allways Hear it as Bisontine Empire 😂🤌🏻

Nice. Here is an idea. Form a hybrid culture with something so you can get the Konnie men-at-arms. Build Hunting Grounds in all your holdings so you can get insane bonuses to the Konnie. I did that when i did the Unite the Slavs challange. Konnie are op. You stackwhipe everything if you have enught of them

the rat bucket thing is a scene from Game of Thrones hahaha in herrinhall

1. I think de jure casus bellis are culture innovation dependent 11:39 2. Also only the attacker gets a truce 15:43

FOR THE faith put armed pilrimages ,pursuit of power ,medicant preachers as tenets ,monogomous, clerical as recruitment, both genders as clergy, spiritual clergy then temporal revocable appointments

You could hypothetically become Krstjani. You own two of their holy sites and a third is up in Balaton. I'm unsure if the AI can do the "Accuse the Krstjani of Heresy" decision against you or not - could be funny to see it happen because it basically means you lose Ecumenism and the other Christian faiths start considering you Hostile, lmao. But to be honest, you get gold and armed pilgrimages from the Catholics, so I'm not sure if that's worth giving up just for the region flavor.

"Attempting to create the biggest empire in ck3" Me with my world conquest empire: excuse what the fu-

I’ve seen a ton of comments about it already but that Special Building is a Kristjani holy site so you can only get it you are Kristjani. You can later make a new religion which would keep those holy sites.

Imagine working your way up so hard to form an empire, but the second you die, your grandson takes the throne.and your empire collapses. Ancient Empires be like.

CK1 video when?

Another Evil Cult Faith with different evil Tenets around conquest would be cool. But dont make yourself Head of Faith with people spamming gold to you, that would make this too easy Try and follow more stories of other houses like you did the Vassal Peasant Revolt family, the Modena ruling family and the Feud family, its stories like those that make CK3 interesting Imagine if you took the family of peasants, kept them with you the whole campaign and rose them to become the right-hand man of your empire

Mongol Empire IRL: Am I a joke to you?

Uniting the slavs........ that's a brave proposition.

You could convert to krstjani, a balkan christianity with holy sites in the balkans, could really help and help make the playthrough more unique

I believe if you want to make use of the special building slot, you have to convert to Krstjani faith. Apologies, if you are already aware of this.

As a Bosniak you have my sub

Culture wise I think hybridizing with the Avar culture could give you some good diversity tolerance and military advantage ~ i think they’re even better than the Moyger culture. In my playthrough Russo-Norse was formed , they might be another good one to hybridize with. There are so many options with faiths too! Maybe a folk syncretic christian faith? Would be really good for all the pagans to your north!

An interesting fun challenge would be to start as a witch in 867 in a small county in germany/frisia or something then through intrique and murder form a witch coven ofcourse then conquer enough of germany to then form the "UN"holy roman empire. Not an official ending decision ofcourse but still sounds fun to do. One of the conditions to meet could be that the pope needs to be converted to a witch.

This may sound crazy, but I always try to combine cultures with the Basque culture. You only need one county, which you can get a claim on with your realm priest. Once you build up enough cultural acceptance you can combine and take the trait that gives you "high partition" VERY EARLY. This solves succession problems bigtime.

Did you take the idea from my comment 6 days ago: A fun playthrough is starting as a Croatian or Hungarian and hybridizing with the other so then you have both Koni and Horse Archers and can melt other armies so you don't have to chase them around the map. I prefer to go with Croatian so you can milk the Pope for gold and then go for the whole Slavia unification. Just make 2 stacks of Koni, 2 Horse Archers, and 2 of the best siege equipment while building all buildings that give a bonus to light cavalry. So easy to win against 3-4 times your numbers. Or is it a lucky coincidence? The Bosnia move threw me for a loop, but it does seem interesting. Nice to see a Slavia playthrough.

Is this 3D view of a court a new thing or available in some DLC? I didn't played since 2020.

Ready for the next part !

Rat bucket torture is from Game of Thrones when Ariya was captured by the Lannisters

what mods are you using? i see you have the orange prowess looking thing on your screen

ive lived for 105 years as king of aquatine, england, wales, and brittany. Pretty good run

Good stuff. Have you covered botnets?

information: The inhabitants of Bosnia belong to the South Slavs and this is one of the three Slavic groups in Europe. We also have Eastern Slavs (Belarus, Ukraine) and Western Slavs (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and the Sorbian ethnic group)

I just united the Slavs it took me months! I’m so happy!

Dejure wars have to be unlocked in the culture tab

You should revive the ancient greek religion .

13:41 casual eugenics

Oooooh, typical slav hairstyle for the first character :D

You should revive the karolingers to the french throne

You should definitely try to get the konni Men-at-arms because they are broken. Croatian has the cultural tradition "konni raids" that grants them. Also when you form a new culture, you should drop the isolationist tradition Bosnian has because you're going for such a wide, diverse empire.

I think forming a pan-Slavic culture (definitely getting the Konni in there), and converting to Krstjani would be good. If you united all of those Holy Sites, you could even declare a Krstjani Pope, which would be awesome!

How the hell has this one thumbnail done a better job in showing me the slavic reigon than anything elss that shows it (I have CK3 on PS5, which doesn’t show reigons)

I went for this run as Serbian people of the Slavic religion. Now that was a nightmare, even as Byzantium's Vassal until we united the south slavs.

Would be pretty cool if you took the dynasty legacy built around family as you install your family as local rulers.

idk if youve done this yet (just found you today and am watching through) but what about uniting the entire known world under the old norse faith?

Some lord : abuses daughter Snap : hippity hoppity your bloodline is my property

what mod is that green, blue and purple portrait backgrounds?

controversial game goals of the 90s

Well, in terms of cultures, maybe it would be nice to mix the Bosnian culture with the Volakhs, and then with the Russians. If you decide to create your own religion, then perhaps after you have conquered most of the de jure possessions needed. Although it's also worth just leaving the property that gives you the ability to start holy wars and just create a pure religion of war.

Bosnian-Prussian culture would just be perfect.

You could create a heresy from the Bosnian faith of Krstjani, they would have decent holy site locations within your realm.

That Bosnia map color looks soo good

Finally a Bosnian play through!!!! Put Bosnia in the title and watch your views skyrocket!

I mean I am all for this series but wasn't there talk of a second channel for longer series? Tho I see no problem doing such like this one here on the primary channel.

I'm working on uniting the Slavs as well but I started as a Polish pagan tribal duchy so my development was terrible to start with. I managed to form the empire of West Slavia, reform the Slavic religion, and adopt feudalism by about 950 AD, so the final phase is to conquer the South Slavs. This video game me some ideas, thanks.

Revive/strengthen the Krjstani religion. It's a Christian faith in the Balkans that has a few holy sites right there. I think it'd be a really cool aspect to add, one people with one culture and one religion typa stuff

Love ur content of ck3 it's my favorite. I have ck3 on my Xbox but no keyboard and mouse support. It's so hard to play with a controller. Just navigating or movement is a night mare

11:35 you didnt get the dejure war casus belli, because you culture probably hasn't unlocked it yet.

Become steppe and hybridize with mogyers, get both konni raids and horse lords. I don't know if it's possible to become the khan of all khans of the slavs.

I did this and it took forever without Warmonger. Then I started a campaign to Restore Rome because I like forming these giant empires

If you do form Slavia, just convert to the Slavianska religion, reform it and probably branch it to a different faith with a set of tenants, and stuff of your liking. Since it would make sense Slavia's faith would be back to it's Slavic roots, and thus Slavic religion.

nice video, love the feud pettiness

It took me a while to realise you need casus beli researched in order to do de jure claims, I miss CK2 :(

11:45 you don't have a de jure casus Belli because it's a culture fascination that most cultures don't have in the year 867

Easy way to get rid of too many unwanted sons is to force them to act as knights then splitting your army off so that only the unwanted sons stand on their own. Then just send them off constantly to battles untill they die in battles.

I am always strugling with big empires. Somehow my vassals are gettin king tiers and they are always forming functions againts me. What whould you sugget to me in order to avoid this problem?

I have a couple of ideas about what kind of faith that you could make and what kind of culture that would be fitting to you not the Slavs with. So first I would like to cover the religion in which I think you should convert to the krstjani which is still a christian faith, because your capital that you have been developing is one of the holy sites which can give you multiple bonuses through your campaign as well as many other holy sites spread out across things like Italy and Jerusalem and other places throughout the Slavic world. if you plan to keep this as your capital. And if you want to create a new faith the tenants I would choose are mendicant preachers which I think are unique to this fate and already come with it so you wouldn't have to spend any potty on that one and then I would change out monkeyism for communal identity so if you choose to create a different culture it will spread with your faith and then I would swap out pastoral isolation with cthonic redoubts because this gives you conversion speed in your all of your lands that have mountains and as being in highly mountainous area this could benefit you greatly and since you already have communal identity this will help you spread your culture throughout your lands as well or at least your lands around your capital as they are basically surrounded by mountains. And then I would leave the rest up to you except maybe keep the theocracy doctrine and then have the spiritual doctrine so you can basically become the pope of your religion and kind of role play like you are the Slavic pope or whatever I think that might be a pool idea especially because you are like allied with Italy so that could create a interesting power dynamic between the Slavic Empireand the Italian Empire as Rome is where the pope lives and will probably become a vassal of the state that has taken over italy in your game. Now on to culture me personally I would probably make like a hybrid culture with like maybe Greek because you can get like the eastern Roman Legacy and it gives you like special troops but that's about like all I want from that. But if you really wanted to like kind of stick to your Slavic roots especially like the southern ones then I'd probably go with the vlach or Bulgarian culture as these two cultures somewhat have a slovak heritage and have special minute arms like the Greeks except they're called Kony Riders and they're pretty strong i will say the Bulgarian culture is probably the one that I would prefer to hybridize with because they have like merciful buildings which is a very useful one just to help you like build up your capital and stuff all around your domain which can be very useful but the vlach culture has strong believers which can kind of play into like the Slavic Pope kind of idea that I had before which I thought could be an interesting role play experience. More about the Slavic pope idea i think that it was cool watching you start a family Feud between two kingdoms and then fighting it out until the end and I think this could be a interesting way even after you unite the slobs maybe you could invade somewhere like Italy as you have already put your own like family heritage there So I think it would be interesting if you became like the Slavic Pope and wanted to retake Rome for the new Slavic popes throne. And the whole retaking of Italy thing is just a suggestion me personally I would just cut the series off when you unite the slaves because I think that's interesting enough but I would like to see the Slavic pope as I think it is an interesting idea and what kind of change history how we know it. Last but not least I hope you take this on to consideration I would love to watch your next video and see some of my suggestions be used in the campaign.

Bro did something that not even Tito tried to do

the beast strategy man

The Bucket thing was in Game of Thrones.

Just finished a Mali playthrough where I united Africa, re established the Sunni Caliphate, and dismantled the papacy all between 1066-1453. So satisfying.

Those Waldensians are about 300 years early

Challenge idea. Try to fill your court with purple artifacts.

in 11:40 , I think that the de jure casus beli is one of the first innovations and you haven't unlocked it yet

Hey, i‘ve noticed, that in a lot of CK3 RU-vid videos, the AI seems too be way more active, than in my game. Is this some kind of setting, or mod, that makes them more aggressive/active?

You should convert to the local religion kryst(what ever it's called) so that when/if you make a new faith you get the holysites

What are the mods that he used. The character in his video look way much better than when I play?